Communities
Goals for this week
- Participate in some crowd-sourced ‘citizen science’ archaeology
- Build your own research compendium for work you’ve done on the graveyards project
- Build a simple website aimed at explaining your research compendium to an interested public.
Listen
(For more about the Alexandria Archive Institute, go here)
Read
- Morgan, Colleen, Robert Carter, Michal Michalski. 2016. The Origins of Doha Project: Online Digital Heritage Remediation and Public Outreach in a Vanishing Pearling Town in the Arabian Gulf. CHNT 20: Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies November 2-4. 1-8. link
- Richardson, L.-J., 2019. Using Social Media as a Source for Understanding Public Perceptions of Archaeology: Research Challenges and Methodological Pitfalls. Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 2.1, 151–162.link
- Hall, Claire. “Mukurtu for mātauranga Māori: A case study in Indigenous archiving for reo and tikanga revitalisation.” Language, culture & technology: 189. link
- Hodgetts, Lisa and Laura Kelvin Z. 2020. At the Heart of the Ikaahuk Archaeology Project. In Kisha Supernant, Jane Eva Baxter, Natasha Lyons, Sonya Atalay (eds). Archaeologies of the Heart, Springer, Cham, 2020 link
Each reading is ‘seeded’ with annotations by me; some of my annotations contain video from me directing you to pay attention to particular issues or ideas. Annotate anything interesting you find with Hypothes.is while logged into our reading group, keeping in mind what you’ve already heard/read.
A good annotation draws connections between what you’ve read and other things you’ve read/heard/experienced. I explicitly encourage you to connect what you read in this class with what you’re reading/doing in other classes. Also add anything you read or anything interesting you find to your Zotero library.
Do
Unlike in previous weeks, I really want you to try for the first two if you can. Third one is there for you to push yourself. For the research compendium, you will need to pool resources with your peers; see the instructions.
- Explore, and participate, in some crowd-sourced archaeology
- Start to build a research compendium
- Using what you know about public facing work in archaeology, build a static website on github pages explaining (and eventually, linking to) your research compendium and the work that you’ve done on the graveyards project.
Record and Reflect
You may make your repository private or public.
If you make it private, make sure to ‘invite user shawngraham’ to your repository so that I may view it. (See the Github instructions for a reminder.)
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As you did for week one, make another notes.md entry and put it in your github repository for week 10.
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In your reflective journal, drawing on your annotations of what you’ve read, your notes from what you’ve listened to, and the work you’ve done this week (both the successes and the not-quite-successes) discuss the work you’ve done so far in this class as a whole and what it might mean for the communities which your graveyards serve. Begin the reflection by quoting (w/ citation) one sentence from the readings that resonates with you: you don’t have to explain why, but you might select something that is personally meaningful, or leaves you confused, or makes you happy, or intrigues you to know more… etc. Put your journal in your repo.
Log Your Work
You can log the link to your repository on this form.